nativisticadj.
/ˌneɪtᵻˈvɪstɪk/, U.S. /ˌneɪdəˈvɪstɪk/ 1. U.S. Politics = nativist n. 1.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > nationalism > [adjective] > relating to indigenization
nativistic1859
1859 Banner of Liberty (Middletown, N.Y.) 4 May 5/1 The dangers to the Black Republican party threatened by this nativistic proposition in Massachusetts.
1880 Nation (N.Y.) 22 Apr. The nativistic tendencies of the Whig party.
1987 Eng. Today Apr.–June 27/1 The voters are seeing the issue as linguistic only, not as what it really is: a nativistic movement against the current minority now assimilating into American society, the Hispanic.
2. † a. Philosophy. = nativist n. 2a. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > idealism > [adjective] > relating to innatism or apriorism
transcendental1835
a priori1841
aprioristic1874
nativistic1876
nativist1901
1876 Mind 1 24 This hypothesis, which seems to imply..either that the retina is the seat of sensation, or that the mind wherever situated has a direct cognisance of the retina and its arrangement of parts, was the first crude form of the ‘nativistic’ theory of visual perception.
1881 J. Le Conte Sight 103 The one is called the nativistic, the other the empiristic theory.
1888 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) 49 369 Precisely how he would harmonize the nativistic and empiristic theories of morals he does not seem to describe.
b. Psychology and Linguistics. = nativist n. 2b.
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the mind > language > [adjective] > terms relating to origin of language
gestural1613
symphonetic1872
nativistic1922
the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of perception > [adjective] > relating to nativism
nativistic1946
1922 O. Jespersen Lang. xxi. 415 A closely related theory is the nativistic, nicknamed the ding-dong, theory, according to which there is a mystic harmony between sound and sense.
1946 D. McCarthy in L. Carmichael Man. Child Psychol. x. 501/2 Sapir..proposes a nativistic theory of phonetic symbolism which has given rise to considerable controversy.
1968 D. Price-Williams in J. Clifton Introd. Cultural Anthropol. xii. 312/1 The results support the Gestalt position and thus the nativistic viewpoint.
1990 J. Harris Early Lang. Develop. 113 It is also reflected in both the nativistic and the interactionist accounts of language development.
3. Cultural Anthropology. = nativist adj. 3.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [adjective] > process > specific
accultural1890
acculturative1915
acculturational1937
nativistic1937
schismogenic1949
massified1960
nativist1960
1937 in Man (1938) 38 117/2 Nativistic cults arise among deprived ‘groups’.
1974 Listener 7 Mar. 294/1 A nationalist—or as the officials prefer to call it—‘nativistic’ movement..in the South Pacific.
1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 22 Oct. 82/2 They embrace a romantic, nativistic streak in Argentine nationalism, turning their back..on..enlightened liberalism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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